Portraits of Buddhist Women

Portraits of science. Two good women, or too good to be true?

Living with Diabetes: Experiences of Inner and Outer Sources of Beliefs in Women with Low Socioeconomic Status

The purpose of this study was to examine the life experiences of nineteen Thai women of low socioeconomic status who were living with type 2 diabetes. A qualitative research design was conducted, and the women were identified by the snowball technique. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, and processes of induction and abstraction were used for data analysis. The theme "keepin...

Obesity: Rubensian beauty turned into major health problem

The Dutch painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640), the most famous artist of the Flemish Baroque art school, studied anatomy and medicine to understand the human body and devoted his life to sharing views common among his contemporaries. Rubens believed that physical weakness could lead to spiritual weakness. He painted nudes and highlighted their physical beauty, goodness,...

Rethinking Body, Woman, Sex, and Agency in Medieval Japa nese Narratives

ed from society, and often in opposition to it. When medieval texts speak of onna no mi they mean more than the physical and sexed body that makes for womanhood; for both her mental and emotional attributes as well as her relationship to others as a social being are involved in the constitution of what we might call the female body/self. The body in the medieval context was not something set in...

Buddhism Architecture in Northwestern Iran

Architecture is not only a complex including materials and methods to provide a shelter for human beings, but also it is an expression of the society, which created that. Its form will be the reflection of values and religious orientation besides social maturity of the related society and its structure will narrate the nature, power and different dimensions of mythical and psychological aspects...